"Once favourite destination of the Grand Tour, undisputed homeland of the pictorial “vedutismo”, Venice has been living for centuries a blessed relationship with the art of drawing. Which is a perfect way to investigate the city with love and painstaking slowness, to recreate with a gesture at the same time ancient and only at first glance natural the magic of its more celebrated views or of details unknown to the too fast visitor. Its current days are not easy, but even today Venice appears unaltered in its beauty when one knows how to overstep the barrier of the more polished and unoriginal way of portray it. To whom has eyes to look properly at it, Venice still repeates the miracle to appear every time new being always the same, today as much as in the forever lost times of Canaletto and Turner."

"The pencil marks a point which liquefies into a line densefing relentlessly what goes through the eye into the hand, impressions that a filtred through the ritual of countless observations, sharped by the continous growing knowledge of the impact of black ink on white paper.

Like a seismograph the pencil registers the trembling and excitement of the immediate experience: Dark and dense zones reach out with tremulous lines, disentangle themselves, disolving into white, small staccatos dots, tender crosshatching, knots and twine, bundle and clew and all od a sudden a fiew vertical clean lines establish distance and perspective at the bottom oft he plane."

light/gentle but not unserious, almost cursory without being imprecise, often dreamy and filled with love for what he sees, Rudolf Deil virtuosic notes his sentiments in the drawing. However the keen sense of the to be drawn object makes his notes precise, complete and critical. His eye perceives the environment that his pencil captures graphically. He experiences the town with its diverse problems and beauties, to show it to others. That is the drawer whom the city generously trusts. His drawings are non-reduced but compact nuanced states of a worth seeing environment."